Gisela Stuart to lead project for EU citizens’ rights in UK

Former co-chair of Britain’s Vote Leave campaign Gisela Stuart said on Tuesday she will lead a research project on how to protect the right of EU citizens in Britain after the U.K. leaves the EU, the BBC reports.

Its findings will be published sometime in the autumn. They will seek to answer “a whole series of practical questions,” after some three million EU citizens in Britain have been “left in limbo” since the referendum, Stuart said.

“What legal status will people have? How do they prove eligibility to stay? When is the cut-off date and how do we manage any possible migration surge ahead of it,” Stuart said.

Stuart added that she was “confident” the government would guarantee EU nationals’ status. “There is wide agreement, among the public, politicians and business, that EU citizens are welcome here and that the government should make clear they can stay,” she said.

David Davis, the Brexit secretary to oversee the negotiations with the EU, has said he wants to secure a “generous settlement” for both EU nationals in the U.K., and British citizens abroad.

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FierEuropeen

I think all the EU citizens in england would be better returning to the EU ASAP. The future is in EU not in little england.

Posted on 8/16/16 | 1:33 PM CET

Stuart Brown

What about the rest of us whose right to free movement is to be taken away without our consent? … that applies to Leave voters just as much as to Remain voters.

Posted on 8/16/16 | 1:57 PM CET

Deb

@Stuart Brown

Many have made the mistake of trying to have a conversation with FierEuropeen.

On your question. That was the purpose of the referendum, to see what the majority want. Democracy is a majority rule system. Some you win some you lose. It turns out that the UK has been operating a system of uncontrolled free movement that the majority of the UK did not want.

Posted on 8/16/16 | 2:47 PM CET

Sieuwke

This is an easy promise, the UK doesn’t have the capacity to send EU citizens home. Knowing this, PM May can’t use them as bargaining chips.
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